Urban history
20 Jun 2012
From necessary leisure to moral prophylaxis: death of the suburban garden
Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh)
28 May 2012
Following the Urban Alchemist: The Tour Guide and the History of London
Geoffrey Levett (Birkbeck, University of London)
14 Mar 2012
A neighbourhood of this sort. How Southwark shaped ideas of child and school: Orange Street Elementary, 1870-1914
Imogen Lee (Goldsmiths)
29 Feb 2012
The prevention of crime in late eighteenth-century Bristol: policing, the public, and the city
Matthew Neale (IHR)
21 Feb 2012
The Olympics, documentation strategy and the Minnesota Method
Cathy Williams (The National Archives)
1 Feb 2012
Flaring Lights and Urgent Cries: London street markets c.1850-1939
Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts)
18 Jan 2012
Running the River Thames: oral history and the environmental governance of the Thames, 1960-2010
Vanessa Taylor (Greenwich)
23 Nov 2011
Urbanizing China in war and peace, Wuxi 1911-1945
Toby Lincoln (Centre for Urban History, Leicester)
9 Nov 2011
Cultures of giving and charity: the Clothworkers Company in early modern London
Annaleigh Margey (Maynooth)
26 Oct 2011
Worse than Cimmerian Darkness: fog and the representation of Victorian London
Joseph de Sapio (Oxford)
21 Oct 2011
Locating London's past: a geo-referencing tool for mapping historical and archaeological evidence, 1660-1800
Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield)
19 Oct 2011
Chancery Lane: politics, space and the built environment, c.1760-1815
Francis Boorman (IHR)
12 Oct 2011
The Survey of London: methods and sources for recording the development of London's fabric
Peter Guillery and Philip Temple (Survey of London, English Heritage)
7 Jul 2011
Locating the location of a South African location: the paradoxical pre-history of Soweto
Howard Phillips (University of Cape Town)
7 Jul 2011
Understanding the 21st century crisis in cities in the global South: a critical review of the utility of the historiography of urban modernity (and its shadows)
Susan Parnell (University of Cape Town)
7 Jul 2011
Slow moving shadows: transport, travel and shanty towns
Gordon Pirie (University of Cape Town)
7 Jul 2011
Shifting boundaries and enduring connections: networks of interaction in Nairobi's informal transportation sector
Meghan Ference (Washington University Missouri)
7 Jul 2011
The evolution of Nairobi segregation patterns. Semiotic and material practices in the discourse on the city since independence (1963)
Ilaria Boniburini (University of Florence)
7 Jul 2011
Unauthorized neighbourhoods of India's intermediate classes: a hidden side of shadow cities?
Sanjeev Vidyarthi (University of Illinois Chicago)
7 Jul 2011
The long shadow of the Acropolis: migrant shanty towns on the outskirts of Athens, 1923-1955
Bryan Claxton (King's College, University of London)
6 Jul 2011
(Un)planned slums under the Soviets: hidden aspects of the development of the concept of the Socialist City in the 1920s-30s
Ivan Nevzgodin (Delft University of Technology)
6 Jul 2011
Addressing informality after Peronism: the Plan de Emergencia as a founding step for the Argentinian discussion of informality
Adriana Massidda (Cambridge University)
6 Jul 2011
'One Hundred Years of Fortitude': growth and change of informal settlements in Caribbean Colombia
Peter Kellett (University of Newcastle)